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On Jessica Bates and the “new orthodoxy”: Can people of faith still adopt?

April 10, 2023 Charles J. Russo 8

Jessica Bates, a widowed mother of five children aged ten to seventeen in Oregon whose husband died six years ago in a car accident unsuccessfully attempted “to adopt siblings from foster care,” both of whom […]

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